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    copied!<p>I am going out of my mind for the last two days with an <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> error I receive in Android code when trying to get a coordinates out of an address, or even reverse, get address out of longitude and latitude. This is the code, but I cannot see an error. It is a standard code snippet that is easily found on a Google search.</p> <pre><code>public GeoPoint determineLatLngFromAddress(Context appContext, String strAddress) { Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(appContext, Locale.getDefault()); GeoPoint g = null; try { System.out.println("str addres: " + strAddress); List&lt;Address&gt; addresses = geocoder.getFromLocationName(strAddress, 5); if (addresses.size() &gt; 0) { g = new GeoPoint( (int) (addresses.get(0).getLatitude() * 1E6), (int) (addresses.get(0).getLongitude() * 1E6) ); } } catch (Exception e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("locationName == null"); } return g; } </code></pre> <p>These are the permissions from manifest.xml file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /&gt; &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" /&gt; &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" /&gt; &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>I do have the Google API key declared too: <code>&lt;uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" /&gt;</code></p> <p>From the code snippet above, <code>geocoder</code> is not <code>null</code>, neither is the <code>address</code> or <code>appContext</code>, and I stumble here: <code>geocoder.getFromLocationName(strAddress, 5);</code> </p> <p>I did a lot of Google searching and found nothing that worked, and the most important info I found is this: </p> <blockquote> <p>The Geocoder class requires a backend service that is not included in the core android framework.</p> </blockquote> <p>Sooo, I am confuzed now. What do I have to call, import, add, use in code.... to make this work? I am using Google API 2.2, API level 8. If somebody has found a solution for this, or a pointer for documentation, something that I didn't discover, please let us know.</p>
 

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